Full movie description "Hawaii Five-O Tsunami":

Some kids steal an ambulance, one of the attendants tries to stop them but is struck. One of the kids wants to go back and help the man but they keep on going. When they reach their destination the one who wanted to go back is upset, saying that no one was suppose to get hurt. That's when he walks off and a couple of them follow him. He goes to the Iolani Palace and one of them tries to talk him out what he is thinking but his mind is made that's when he is shot. Steve is upset. Later they put their plan in motion, wherein two of them go to a weather monitoring station and make the one there announce a Tsunami is coming. And that's when the island is in an uproar. That's when the rest rob a jewelry store. Steve upon learning the whole thing's a hoax and help but wonder if it and the dead young man are connected.

Reviews of the Hawaii Five-O Tsunami

Most folks living here in the continental US probably have no idea that Hawaii is located in a precarious place in the Pacific and it has, on occasion, been hit by massive tsunamis--such as 1946 and 1960. So, the plot in "Tsunami" isn't really that outside the realm of possibility.

The show begins with an ambulance being stolen and one of the crew being run over by the thieves. This causes one of the perpetrators to think twice about their plans--he wants no part of a heist that involves killing or nearly killing anyone. However, as you'd expect on the show, he's soon killed by a very rabid member of the gang. As for the gang, they are an odd group. They are NOT professional criminals but some amoral but very bright university students--so full of themselves and their supposed high IQs that they think they can out-think Five-O. Their plan is to fake a tsunami warning and use this as a cover for a jewel robbery. The plan is very clever but, of course, not clever enough.

The biggest plus of this show is novelty. While one early episode did talk about tsunamis in Hawaii, "Tsunami" was still very original and the plan quite involving. The only part that seemed silly to me involved a scientist whose glasses were smashed. You'd still think that he'd have SOME indication of what his captors looked like even if he had severe vision problems. Heck, he couldn't even tell the police their hair color, race or anything other than that they sounded 'young'. Still, this is a very minor problem in an otherwise involving episode.